Transactions have the status “To be validated” or “To be validated and authorized” in the following cases:

• You have configured manual validation in the Merchant Back Office.
• Your merchant site requests that we create a payment with manual validation.
• You have enabled risk management with manual validation.

Manual validation mode in the Merchant Back Office:

1. Sign in to the Merchant Back Office.
2. Go to the Settings > Shop menu.
3. Search for the Validation mode (if applicable) parameter.
4. Change the parameter if necessary.

The merchant site requests that a payment be created with manual validation:

Contact your developer/webmaster if you wish to change this behavior.

Manual validation mode configured in risk management:

1. Sign in to the Merchant Back Office.
2. Go to the Settings > Risk assessment menu.
3. Search for Validate manually.
4. Click on it to view the configured rules.